With mental health care on the chopping block, it is important to keep in mind organizations that can help. Here's a list of groups I've compiled, which also include suicide prevention sites.
Helpful Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Organizations
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
bringchange2mind
Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services
Healthline
NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
Stop A Suicide Today
Survivors of Suicide Bereavement Support Association, Inc.
The Compassionate Friends
The Jed Foundation
My son Paul was diagnosed with bipolar disorder soon after he turned twenty-one. And after struggling with it for almost seven years, he took is life at age twenty-seven. Suicide is a huge risk for those suffering with mental illness.
We must continue to work hard for health care parity, i.e., that treats physical illness and mental illness equally. It didn't exist when Paul was s … [Read more...]